Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed GAZIANTEP (Eqtsad)- Turkish official figures said the number of Syrian refugees in the border city of Gaziantep has been increased strongly to reach 325,000 people, however the count increases to about half a million people after adding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the paramilitary National Defense Forces in Homs was killed on Friday in the ongoing fighting with the Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, pro-regime media accounts said. M.General Sharaf Shaaban al-Oja, the head of NDF in eastern Homs and the commander...

Syrian state TV has said that the army recaptured major parts of the historic and strategic city of Palmyra as battles rage between Syrian army troops and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Syria's state news agency, SANA, reported on Friday that the army, backed by...

A suicide attacker detonated an explosive belt in a park outside Baghdad on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 71, said the security head in Babel province where the bomb - claimed by Islamic State - went off. The blast in Iskandariya, a mixed Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim town 40...